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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorOccultation and Other Stories
Laird Barron · 245 pages
Laird Barron has emerged as one of the strongest voices in modern horror and dark fantasy fiction, building on the eldritch tradition pioneered by writers such as H. P. Lovecraft, Peter Straub, and Thomas Ligotti. His stories have garnered critical acclaim and have been reprinted in numerous year’s best anthologies and nominated for multiple awards, including the Crawford, International Horror Gui
Love in Vein: Twenty Original Tales of Vampiric Erotica
Kathe Koja, Barry N. Malzberg, Steve Rasnic Tem, Melaine Tem, Norman Partridge, W.H. Pugmire, Brian Hodge, Mike Baker, A.R. Morlan, Danielle Willis, Robert Devereaux, Thomas F. Monteleone, Wayne Allen Sallee, Gene Wolfe · 405 pages
Twenty stories of vampiric erotica, or more precisely depravity with sex prominently featured. People are skinned alive and a pair of women make love to a man until he dies. Edited by the author of Drawing Blood.
John Dies at the End
David Wong · 428 pages
This may be the story of John and David, a drug called soy sauce, and other-worldly beings invading the planet. Or, it may be the story of two beer-drinking friends who live in an unnamed Midwestern town and only think something horrific is going on. But the important thing is, according to the narrator, "None of this is my fault."
Her Body and Other Parties
Carmen Maria Machado · 248 pages
In this electric and provocative debut, Carmen Maria Machado bends genre to shape startling narratives that map the realities of women's lives and the violence visited upon their bodies. A wife refuses her husband's entreaties to remove the green ribbon from around her neck. A woman recounts her sexual encounters as a plague slowly consumes humanity. A salesclerk in a mall makes a horrifying di
The Missing
Sarah Langan · 416 pages
2007 Bram Stoker Award winner. A remote and affluent Maine community, Corpus Christi was untouched by the environmental catastrophe that destroyed the neighboring blue-collar town of Bedford. But all that will change in a heartbeat . . .The nightmare is awakened when third-grade schoolteacher Lois Larkin takes the children on a field trip to Bedford. There in the abandoned woods, a small, cruel
Clive Barker's Hellraiser Vol. 1
Clive Barker, Christopher Monfette · 128 pages
Book of the Dead
Glen Vasey, Les Daniels, Douglas E. Winter, Steven R. Boyett, Nicholas Royle, Joe R. Lansdale, Brian Hodge, David J. Schow, Robert R. McCammon, Chan McConnell, Richard Laymon, Ramsey Campbell, Stephen King, Philip Nutman, Edward Bryant · 362 pages
Blossom / Chan McConnell -- Mess hall / Richard Laymon -- It helps if you sing / Ramsey Campbell -- [Home delivery / Stephen King][1] -- Wet work / Philip Nutman -- A sad last love at the diner of the damned / Edward Bryant -- Bodies and heads / Steve Rasnic Tem -- Choices / Glen vasey -- The good parts / Les Daniels -- Less than zombie / Douglas E. Winter -- Like Pavlov's dogs
Flesh
Richard Laymon · 336 pages
No one in town has ever seen anything like it: a slimy, mobile tube of glistening yellow flesh with dull, staring eyes and an obscene, probing mouth. But the real horror is not what it looks like, or what it does when it invades your flesh—but what it makes you do to others.
Perdido Street Station
China Mieville · 710 pages
Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies New Crobuzon, a squalid city where humans, Re-mades, and arcane races live in perpetual fear of Parliament and its brutal militia. The air and rivers are thick with factory pollutants and the strange effluents of alchemy, and the ghettos contain a vast mix of workers, artists, spies, junkies, and whores. In New Crobuzon, the unsavory
Hemlock Grove
Brian McGreevy · 319 pages
"An epic, original reinvention of the Gothic novel, taking the characters of our greatest novels, myths, and nightmares - the werewolf, the vampire, Frankenstein - and reimagining them for our time"--
Tapping the Vein
Clive Barker, P. Craig Russell, Chuck Wagner, Fred Burke, Bo Hampton, Steve Niles · 160 pages
Between Two Fires
Christopher Buehlman · 456 pages
And Lucifer said: “Let us rise against Him now in all our numbers, and pull the walls of heaven down…” The year is 1348. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village. An orphan of the Black Death, and an almost unnerving picture of innocence, she tells Thomas that plague is only part of a larger cataclysm—that the fallen angels under Lucifer are rising in
The Strain
Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan · 504 pages
The visionary creator of the Academy Award-winning Pan's Labyrinth and a Hammett Award-winning author bring their imaginations to this bold, epic novel about a horrifying battle between man and vampire that threatens all humanity. It is the first installment in a thrilling trilogy and an extraordinary international publishing event.The StrainThey have always been here. Vampires. In secret and in d
Little Heaven
Nick Cutter · 579 pages
A trio of mismatched mercenaries is hired by a young woman to evaluate the safety of a boy who may have been taken against his will to a New Mexico backwoods settlement, where the mercenaries encounter paranoia, mistrust, and insanity in the shadow of a monolithic idol.
Haunted
Chuck Palahniuk · 416 pages
Twenty-three stories chronicle the experiences of people who have answered an ad for an artist's retreat, believing that they will find a peaceful refuge, only to find themselves isolated and trapped in a cavernous old theater.